Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-12
A Carefully Prepared Review Of the
Events Which Led to Chicago's
Haymarket Conspiracy.
H0w Foreign Socialists Came 10 Our
Shores to Creste Discomfort Among
Honest LRboring Americans.
Diabolioal Means-Uncivilized Ends-suc-
ccsstOn of Stirring Events Following the
Explosion of the Haymsrket Bomb.
NEWLY WRITTEN HISTORY.


again be witnessed than the one having
its latest outcome to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical dem
cDstrations with red banners and black
that took place in the streets of Chicago
not two winters ago, followed soon
afterward by the picturesque, vet omI-
nous, Sunday gatherings of tatterde-
mslions, foreigners and demsgogues on
the broad common at the lake front are
now recalled as the quick forerunners of
secret cellar drillings by hundreds of
ignorant, fanatical rifemen in the purlieus
throughout the city. Then came the cool,
deliberate dynamite experiments by care
fully selected masked representatives. in
the woods Ekirting the suburbs. Later
on, secluded in the quiet of down town
back rooms,
DARK CONCLAvEs
Of wild-ideaed but brainy, INSCRIPTIONS
leaders eagerly discussed as their long.
coveted opportunity the just-beginning
development of the workingmsn's con-
certed movement for uniform eight
hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes were
turned into riots, how the entire world
was startled by the blood-chilIing bomb
massacre in the Haym8rket, then the ma
jestic state trial, the emszing brayado Of
the one American defendant, the horribly
grotesque marriage Of another Cne of the
prisoners-eyerY detail OF these strange
occurrences and the extraordinary train
succeeding, now presents Itself again as II
the wnole had passed but yesterday.
The keynote Of it all is found IN the
platform Of
THE MYSTERIOUS 1. A. A.
International Arbeiter (Workingmen's
Association of which organization Au-
gust Spies and his seven co-defendants
were leading members and upholders. In
the international platform it is urged
that "tAa present system under which
property is owned by individuals should
be destroyed, and that all capital which
has been produced by labor should be
transformed into common property "by
force" Eighty "groups" of this danger
Gus organization existed in the United
States, chiefly at the great industrial CEN
tiers, Chicago alone being the iu-stsrred
possassor Of seven. Only portion of
the members were armed, yet the num-
Der of this class il Chicago exceeded
5000, every man OF whom attended regu-
lar military drills, had his own rife and
revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND RoMBs
for the asking. The uaarmed members
Of the groups were constantly In contact
with their armed brethren aud in hearty
sympathy with their purposes and their
principles. It was this compact, we'll
disciplined l. A. 4. that had for its organs
three now noted neWspspers-theA rbeiter
ZeituDg, the Alarm and the Anarchist.
Excepting handsome, youthful Louis
Lingg, who, though taking con-
splcuous part, was mere acting agent,
each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one Of these
papers.
August Spies, keen, cynical Hessian,
with the subtle intellectual Vigor of an
Iago, was editor-iD-chiei of the Arbeiter.
The jaunty, daredevil little Texan, Albert
r. Parsons, brother OF Confederate Gen.
eral, presided over the Alarm. At the
head Of the Anarchist George Engel, an
ether Hessian, but of coarse, brutal
type, out Heroded the most blood-thirstJ
utterances OF his c0mpeers. While Sam
FieIden, the Englishman, sullen- locking,
shaggy and forbiading, but as an agita-
tor simply volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the
polished, attractive German American
| organizer were more especially concerned
| in other than journalistic branches Of the
propaganda, they were, nevertheless,
among the directors respectively of the
Alarm and the Arbeiter Zeitung. The
gaunt BaVariap, Michael SchWsb, was
Spies assistant editor, and his fellow
countryman, Adolph Fischer, he Of the
| poisoned dagger, WAS the Arheiter's head
| foremsn.
Not one of these mer-hoWeyer they
might split hairs, could candidly deny
that he WAS instrumental to 3 greater or
less degree in helping on the catastrophe
st the Hsymarket Or the legal guilt of
each nothing need be said further than
that it's certainty was put to tests seldom
| if ever parelleled.
During the long months preceding the
bom5-throwing the defendants one and
all were necessarily active in
AG1TATING AND ORGANIZING
| IN demonstrations" and experiments.
| Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with impassioned appeals for the lsboring
| people to provide themselves with fire.
arms and dynamite. Specific instructions
were given how 20 handle and use the ex-
plosiye, and how TO make bombs and how
to procure weapons. All this was stated
be the conspirstors to be making ready
for the coming "socisl revolution"
What was ment by "socisl revolution"
was not left to be vaguely inferred, nor
was the time when it WAS to be inaugu-
rated dim uncertainty OF the future.
The "resolution" was fsequertly defined
in speech and writing as ssudden, bloody,
forcibie upheaval OF the right of private
ownership Of property, then the bringing
about OF state of society in which all
property should be held in common.
! Incredible ss it may seem, the aVowed
purpose was
TO DELUGE THE CITY IN THE BLOOD
of the property owning classes, fir at de-